WITH THE DARLING. 
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on the results of my own observations, I would impress the 
following facts upon the reader’s mind. 
I found and left the Darling in a complete state of ex- 
haustion. As a river it had ceased to flow; the only supply 
it received was from brine springs, which, without impart- 
ing a current, rendered its waters saline and useless, and 
lastly, the fish in it were different from those inhabiting 
the other known rivers of the interior. It is true, I did 
not procure a perfect specimen of one, but we satisfac- 
torily ascertained that they were different, inasmuch as 
they had large and strong scales, whereas the fish in the 
western waters have smooth skins. On the other hand, 
the waters of the new river were sweet, although turbid ; 
it had a rapid current in it; and its fish were of the ordinary 
kind. In the above particulars, therefore, they differed as 
much as they could well differ. Yet there were some strong 
points of resemblance in the appearance of the rivers them- 
selves, which were more evident to me than I can hope to 
make them to the reader. Both were shaded by trees of 
the same magnificent dimensions ; and the same kind of 
huts were erected on the banks of each, inhabited by the 
same description, or race, of people, whose weapons, whose 
implements, and whose nets corresponded in most respects. 
We will now cast our eyes over the chart, and see if the 
position of the two rivers upon it, will at all bear out our 
conclusion that they are one and the same ; and whether 
the line that would join them is the one that the Darling 
would naturally take, in reference to its previous course. — 
